I have yet to figure out how to remove the amount of comments displayed for a post. After a post is published, there is a number of comments associated with it and the post image. I have disabled comments for the site at this point. I would rather not have to mess with any of the site template files (e.g. comments.php). Is there a setting somewhere to turn off the number of comments displayed with all posts?

Awesomeone Pro theme does not have any comment settings under Appearance >> Settings >> Readings. There are comment settings under discussion. However, none of them turn off the amount of comments displayed with the posts images displayed on the front page.